Poland

Firm overview

JWP Patent & Trademark Attorneys is one of the top IP law specialists providing comprehensive and business focused assistance in Poland and the European Union. For over 30 years, the firm has been helping local and international businesses protect and maximise their IP assets. The firm is internationally recognised for its expertise in patents, trademarks, designs and copyrights.

JWP is a full service firm specialising in IP strategy, portfolio management, filing & prosecution, litigation and transactions. JWP represents clients before the European Union Intellectual Property Office and the World Intellectual Property Office, the European Patent Office, the Polish Patent Office, as well as local and EU courts and administrative bodies.

With 100 patent and trademark attorneys, attorneys-at-law, paralegals and experts in our team and over 6000 IP cases annually, JWP Patent & Trademark Attorneys is regarded as one of the largest IP law firms in Poland. Our specialists combine knowledge and experience with professional qualifications, which allows us to successfully conduct cases before competent courts and patent offices both in Poland and in Europe. We provide strategic advice in IP management and have experience in handling substantial global portfolios for our clients.

JWP’s expertise covers a broad spectrum of technical disciplines, with teams specialising in chemistry, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, nanotechnology and materials, mechanical engineering, telecommunications and information & communications technology, electronics and optoelectronics. We cooperate with several thousand clients both at home and abroad, across diverse business sectors and technology areas, from start-ups to some of the largest corporations and academic institutions.

With our legal expertise as well as industry and business management knowledge, we can deliver the best IP protection and management strategy and solutions that meet clients’ business objectives and protect their assets. We aim to provide our clients with proactive, pragmatic and commercially-focused IP advice.

JWP Patent & Trademark Attorneys is a part of JWP IP Law Group providing legal, advisory and training assistance relating to all aspects of IP and corporate law.

We run offices in four locations in Warsaw (HQ), Gdansk, Krakow and Wroclaw.

Firm overview

Taylor Wessing has one of the strongest and largest IP teams in Europe and internationally. With more than 200 professionals across Europe alone, the size and scale of our practice means we rarely deal with issues that we have not come across before. What makes us unusual is that we are highly-rated across all IP specialisms. This includes patents; brands and trade marks; copyright; designs; domain names and e-commerce; media law and reputation management, advertising and sponsorship, franchising and broadcasting.

We advise on matters throughout the IP lifecycle from development of IP protection strategies; filing and portfolio management through to maximising value by licensing; and when matters become contentious, protecting your assets through litigation in the courts.

All of our teams are technically excellent and many members have previously worked in-house, giving us a deep understanding of our clients’ needs and issues.

Firm overview

Sulima, Grabowska, Sierzputowska, Patent and Trademark Attorneys was founded in 1995 and during 26 years of steady growth has become one of the best offices in Poland with a big team of IP practitioners.

In Poland registered IP practitioners are called “patent attorneys” while, due to the scope of their professional training, they are entitled to handle all the IP matters, not only patents.

Our team offers a whole spectrum of IP services before the Polish Patent Office and Polish administrative and civil courts, as well as before the EPO, the EUIPO and the WIPO.

We hold a leading position in filing validations of EP patents in Poland. Our co-operation with a huge group of translators personally trained by us and our unique two-step verification system of technical translations leads to excellent quality of translated texts provided by our office.

We are also famous for the quality of our prosecution work and efficiency in obtaining exclusive rights for our clients.

We have vast practice in handling of SPCs. 

We are perfectly prepared to handle any types of IP cases in any conceivable field of technique, i.a. in:

• Chemical Technology and Engineering
• Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry and Technology
• Biotechnology
• Medical devices
• Agriculture and Food Technology
• Oil and Gas Technology and Engineering
• Mechanical and Civil Engineering
• Steel and Mining Engineering
• Automotive, Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering
• Electrical, Electronic and Informatics Engineering
• Nanotechnology

We are highly effective in handling litigation cases in opposition, appeal, invalidation, infringement and declaratory proceedings. We strongly believe in alternative dispute resolutions, and thus we offer deep professional analysis of technical and legal aspects of potential disputes aimed at settling them outside of the courtrooms.

We also successfully handle cases connected with customs matters and with protection and enforcement of domain names.

We help with developing IP protection strategies and managing IP portfolios.

We provide comprehensive advices on formal requirements and on complex procedural and legal issues.

We have capacity, experience and infrastructure allowing to smoothly and quickly attend to our clients’ needs and expectations, including processing high volume filing and/or recordal orders.

Our Patent Department has three divisions: Chemical/Biotech, Mechanical/Electrical and Electronic/IT.

Our patent team consists of 15 registered Polish and European patent attorneys and 15 patent specialists supported by a group of 17 paralegals highly qualified and experienced in patent formalities, transfers of rights and handling annuities.

In litigation cases we are aided by attorneys-at-law and excellent Polish experts ready to provide legal or technical expertise.

Our patent team members - Małgorzata Kaczmarczyk and GrażynaWójcik have written a chapter on formal requirements and practice in Poland to the second edition of “European SPCs Unravelled: A Practitioner’s Guide to Supplementary Protection Certificates in Europe” which will be published by Wolters Kluwer.

Last updated 4th March 2021

Firm overview

Patpol is an intellectual property law firm which was established and continuously existed since 1966. It is a leader in the field of intellectual property protection in Poland. Currently, it is perceived as one of the best law firms in the field of comprehensive protection of inventions, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks and copyrights. The firm and its employees are regularly recommended in international industry rankings such as IP Stars (Tier 1 Firm), WTR 1000 and IAM Patent 1000.

The team members include seasoned European and Polish patent attorneys with an in-depth expertise in their industry sectors. The latter ones include life science, mechanics, chemistry, electronics, heavy industry, IT.

Patpol’s patent department’s team members have specialized expertise to advise their clients on sophisticated strategies for the protection of their inventions as well as maintenance and defense of patents before the Polish Patent Office, European Patent Office (EPO), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). With the assistance of our extensive network of international professional associates, they can also provide the full range of services for our clients’ patents worldwide.

Our trademark and design experts ensure that their trademarks or designs portfolio brings measurable benefits to the company through appropriate protection of intellectual property rights. We specialize in expert advice for entrepreneurs in Poland and around the world on matters such as:

• Audit of intellectual property portfolio
• Selection of an appropriate strategy for the protection of trademarks and industrial designs;
• Representation of trademark and industrial design owners in registration and litigation proceedings before the Patent Office (objections, cancellations, revocation) and administrative courts.

By using our services, clients receive the support of European and Polish trademark and design attorneys with vast experience in representing clients before Polish (UPRP), European (EUIPO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

We know current trends in the protection of trademarks and industrial designs, thanks to which we provide our clients with current and proven knowledge enabling them to make the right business decisions.

Last updated 25th January 2021